O.K., since my last apology to @Ant the Dragon apparently wasn't good enough, I'll post one here too.

@Ant the Dragon , if you were serious and not just wanting acrimony in your "Safe Place" thread I apologize. I thought you were just wanting to be snide and to get people all worked up. I am sorry to accuse you of wanting to sow dissention, I should have checked the thread more before I said that. Please accept my sincere apologies.

O.K., since my last apology to @Ant the Dragon apparently wasn't good enough, I'll post one here too.

@Ant the Dragon , if you were serious and not just wanting acrimony in your "Safe Place" thread I apologize. I thought you were just wanting to be snide and to get people all worked up. I am sorry to accuse you of wanting to sow dissention, I should have checked the thread more before I said that. Please accept my sincere apologies.

I apologize in advance to big old for my gambling lecture to him in that thread, and want to assure him it's nothing personal, or that I'm not implying that he's a bad person, or in any way any worse than anyone else

Why? MOST everybody found no problem with it. Just because YOU have an atrophied sense of humor does NOT mean everyone does!!! You're just itching for BadOleSantabot to spank you, aren't you? Besides......., lighten up man, its the holidays!

I guess I owe @neilold an apology. Scanning through the older threads I found at least one if not two threads he started way back that I essentially copied. One thread title almost word for word. It was inadvertent I assure you and I apologize profusely Neil.

Going back through the old posts I found at least one you started titled "Pondering", which is essentially what I started in the "Idly Pondering" thread. I promise I hadn't seen it until last night. I think you started another one about "Remembering" that I didn't look at but seemed to be pretty much like the one I started "I Remember". Again, I hadn't went through all the old threads until last night and I apologize profusely for inadvertently stealing your topics.

Well, I just went back and found it again, going through it, it seems that my thread IS a bit different, but still close enough to warrant an apology.